Smashed my PR up East side of the Tourmalet. Loving 25-30C temps so pretty Aussie still - locals hate this 'heat'! 
Today's ride: little recovery spin in more rolling terrain... with 20% pinches thrown in because... Basque region!
Today's ride: Basque Epic from St-Jean-Pied-de-Port. Brutal gradients. Beautiful scenery. To Spanish border & back.
Sublime Col d'Aspin today: PR the climb, home in time for stage 1 of le Tour, beer & delicious lunch. Life is good 
Riding past snowdrifts in full summer kit: what a day! Personal best time for Tourmalet West too #FasterWithAge
What a morning for a ride. Stunning up at Gazost. Sealed road in this valley ends 9.9km from home, which is handy!
Lucky to say endless awesome parcours within 10km of home. This spot only 2.5km for example. Yes, v.lucky! #StaySafe
Mates teasing me about lack of MTB action, so here you go: Bike. Dirt. Mountains! Just another day in paradise
Well slap my thigh! Col d'Aspin... on Feb 16... in shorts! Set a PR too so double awesome! Happy days! 
Temporary shelving setup in the garage for training. Strangely motivational... hmmmmmmm...
Today's ride: found a deer trapped by wire fence so helped it escape & run off hopefully unscathed. PS: was nippy!
Today's ride: Beautiful trundle through autumn colours, inc. this section of forest dirt. Yes planned, not lost! 
Today's ride: Cols Ichere & Lie. No big climbs as taking it easy. Not that several km of almost 10% is *that* easy
Today's ride: Short but sweet. Overlooking the Baretous valley & later getting stuck in animal traffic. Baaaaaa!
Today's ride: rolling along a supply branch of the Canal du Midi. And up to a random castle... because... why not?
Today's ride: Lac de Saint Ferreol. Beautiful area I think is bit like a mini Black Forest - sadly minus beer/cake 
Look who finally joined me up the Aspin, yay! Crazy weather for end of August but only slightly damp so no probs
Today's ride: Erm... where's the mountains & what's this blue stuff? Cruising between beaches on the Medoc coast.
Today's ride: what's wrong with this picture? Answer: not much! Beautiful spin even if a little 'lost' at times
On today's ride: little bridge crossing the River Ousse. Still so many little gems like this to discover near home
Today's ride: Back on cliffs above Saint-Cirq-Lapopie because... why not? Few drops of rain a welcome refreshment!
Second ride of the day: short cool down with Pratiwi, who also tried #HaySurfing for the first time Not bad!
Beautiful sunrise ride to avoid forecast heat. Rolling hills & shady forests actually made for perfect conditions
Today's ride: Dodging cattle normally no big deal but when herd has young & giant bull present some care required!
Beaut Baronnies ride this morning. Road in the background is typical of the area: nothing straight & nothing flat!
Beautiful day up top Felt knackered when leaving home but much better after this. Wish it was always the way!
Glorious day to ride the Col d'Aspin. Not much traffic but loads of riders out... and cattle... Moo! :)
Guess there are worse places to be forced to ride a trainer Easy spin in the sunshine, perfect conditions
Not quite my normal view from a bike But... thanks to FFC & Kinomap just took a spin up Col de la Colombiere
Our w/e trip to Lisbon cancelled for obvs reasons However, there are worse places to be stuck #SelfIsolation
Another amazing day for a ride. Jan/Feb this year been rubbish skiing but awesome on the bike! Swings/roundabouts
Today's ride: stunning day for a tour of the Val de Gave. Plus some climbing up the sides, inc Ortiac for these pics.
Today's ride: Hourquette d'Ancizan & Col d'Aspin. In the middle of winter. In shorts (you can't see) Ridiculous!
Today's ride: Bit of an explore out West. Beautiful sunshine all ride. So quite. Should come this way more often!
What. A. Day! 4 hour ride should just about make room for dinner. Happy holidays everyone!
What. A. Day!!!! Couple of ski days in the legs this week but they seemed to go OK - bonus!
At last - cycling in Sunshine! Stunning autumn colours have been hiding most of the month but today all was forgiven.
Tonne up North to Lac du Gabas. Could be last sunshine for a long time but what a day to end our endless summer!
See what happens when you say, "pretty please" Perfect conditions for an arvo ride. And post ride refreshments!
October Tourmalet in full summer kit. Amazing conditions but think that's last of the year. Now bring on the snow!
Crossing a surprisingly clear river Rhine on today's ride... where the Swiss/German border was also crossed 5 times!
Today's ride: lovely sunny loop from Chiemsee round by Reit im Winkl & return. Felt flat as a pancake!
Morning tootle on the bike. Austrian valleys, lakes, churches & castles under brilliant blue skies. Beautiful stuff.
Stunning scenery & brutal gradients. Passes Falzarego, Valparola, Falzarego - again - & Giau. Utter perfection.
Afternoon ride: Passo Valparola... as you can never ride too many epic passes in a day (before it starts to rain)!
This morning's ride: Sella Ronda (clockwise). 4 passes, 3 of them higher than the Tourmalet. Simply Spectacular!
Today's ride: smash fest up Passo del Cuvignone then cruise on shores of lake Maggiore through Laveno. Lovely stuff.
When visitors ask to ride the Tourmalet. Erm, OK, if we must! Social time, so beers at the top. Cheers!
